mystery play

noun

a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

mystery play

(in the Middle Ages) a type of drama based on the life of Christ Compare miracle play

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First recorded in 1850–55

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It was treated solemnly, dreamily, phlegmatically, as a sort of cross between Maeterlinck and a 'mystery play.'

Davie responded that it was like a pasteboard town in a mystery play, and that he longed to strike at it with his good broadsword.

The Spaniards also developed a new form of the mystery play,—the autos sacramentales.

A most ingenious mystery play worked out, however, in terms of modern theatrical realism.

This crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play.

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